Show Hidden

Shows or hides hidden files in mac finder.

It's a very basic shell script. Here's the full thing.

#show or hide hidden files in mac finder

show=$(defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles)
if [ "$show" == "TRUE" ]
then
    defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE;killall Finder
else [ "$show" == "FALSE" ]
    defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE;killall Finder
fi

exit

[Note]: Only works on OSX. It shouldn't damage anything if you run it on another system with bash installed but it won't do anything either.

Requierments

A version of OSX around 10.6 OSX 10.6.8 is the only thing this has been tested on. If you have a simi-modern version of OSX/macOS this functionality is now built into Files.

Running

Two methods of running are provided.

Method 1. The script

• Download the script or copy it from this readme and place it in a folder on your path.
• Add execute permissions. Example chmod u+x /path/to/script/show_hidden.sh
• Run from the commandline.

Method 2. The app

• Download the .dmg.
• Open the .dmg and drag the application to the Applications folder.
• Run from the application menu.